If you just happen to be in Kamloops, British Columbia, you may want to stop by Thomson Rivers University to ‘meet’ their new search interface! Their Summon Launch & Open House party happened yesterday.

With an expanded agreement with publisher Schattauer GmbH, Serials Solutions continues its commitment to add to the German-language resources discoverable through the Summon service. All of Schattauer’s 22 scholarly journals devoted to medical fields will now be indexed in the Summon discovery service.

Thanks to new agreements with three publishers of scholarly open access journal and book content, libraries using the Summon service from Serials Solutions can offer researchers more access to freely available resources outside of their own collections.

Each opportunity to talk with librarians has reinforced the notion that each library has different management needs, is at a different stage of evaluating management services, and is embracing change at some level. The single, consistent element across each conversation is that libraries recognize the need to start somewhere, start soon, and prepare for future management services that are more mature and robust.